Favorite thing to do on a farm or ranch?

Silver said:

Bowhunting

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Ditto. Favorite thing to do in the fall on our farm.
I also really like 4-wheeling.
For some odd reason i like brush hogging the overgrown fieldds.

I think my very favorite is early summer, when the calves are "full of it" in the early evening hours. Running, with their tails straight in the air, bucking, head butting etc..........
I call it "the calf-o- lympics"

Get on my computer and try and get jit riled up. ;D

I used to enjoy the yard work.. making the yard look good with flowers and gardening but we now have sheep.. :-\in the early spring it was nice to let'em run around the yard and just let'em graze.. then the trees started to bud out... then the sheep got fenced in the backyard to clean up the grass and weeds and TREES....they did a really good job...now I am thinking that I may just fence the whole yard and let 'em go at it all.  Now that I got the clipping bug...I'd rather spend my time in the barn/ wash rack.... especially on these hot days.... the evenings are best spent walking through the cattle and just seeing how the calves are growing and changing.... and then coming back to yard to watch our daughter on her new horse "Sugar". (clapping) -Momma Hilltop

Growing up it was always playing hide and seek with the neighbor kids all over the farm or building hay forts in the hay mow.....and of course pick up games of softball.

Watching a young calf that just finished nursing from momma. Still has milk bubbles all over its mouth and its eyes are glazed over. Just looking for a dry place to lay down and sleep it off.

I enjoy Sunday evenings at the show barn.  That's usually when the whole family has time to be down there at once doing whatever needs to be done.

Checking cows during the first month of calving season is better than Christmas morning.

Love cruising the pasture in the evening after a hard days work.  It feels good to be surrounded by something you built from the ground up.

For me it's checking cows in the evening in the front pasture where I head to my Dad's favourite spot on the whole farm and look out to the north across the river and valley to the mountains, knowing full well that his Dad and Grandfather and Great Grandfather probably stood and watched over the North and South Bonnechere Ranges content that they were raising cattle that each generation before them would be proud of.........Shorthorns.............and of course now some Speckle Parks.

So many things.....watching  the new calves run and play with their tails over their backs.....the smell of newly cut meadow hay......horse sweat!........sitting on the porch swing with ice tea and watching the sun set......

Calving season!!!! The miracle of life is the most amazing thing in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mine would have to be driving down the drive way and watching my cattle out in the field.

That too! I love driving up the road and looking back at the ranch and how beautiful it is with my cows sittin on it! lol

combining corn on a cool fall afternoon while listening to a football game.

sam1988 said:

combining corn on a cool fall afternoon while listening to a football game.

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That is a real good one!

Actually accomplishing everything I had planned to get done when I made my plans for the day, while having my morning coffee. So many times, a person makes plans and within minutes of going outside, you know the plans are going to get changed or not happen at all. Seeing a bunch of snotty noses in a calf pen, or a water fountain not working or broke, or a bull with his head stuck in a hay feeder, or a broken fence, etc etc etc. can change your day's plans in a moments notice. Days where everything go as you planned give me a good feeling and a feeling of accomplishment.

justintime said:

Actually accomplishing everything I had planned to get done when I made my plans for the day, while having my morning coffee. So many times, a person makes plans and within minutes of going outside, you know the plans are going to get changed or not happen at all. Seeing a bunch of snotty noses in a calf pen, or a water fountain not working or broke, or a bull with his head stuck in a hay feeder, or a broken fence, etc etc etc. can change your day's plans in a moments notice. Days where everything go as you planned give me a good feeling and a feeling of accomplishment.

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My thoughts exactly, my wife never can figure out why I never get anything I want to do done. I am always busy fixing things on the HAVE TO list and never seem to make it to the WANT TO list.

justintime said:

Actually accomplishing everything I had planned to get done when I made my plans for the day, while having my morning coffee. So many times, a person makes plans and within minutes of going outside, you know the plans are going to get changed or not happen at all. Seeing a bunch of snotty noses in a calf pen, or a water fountain not working or broke, or a bull with his head stuck in a hay feeder, or a broken fence, etc etc etc. can change your day's plans in a moments notice. Days where everything go as you planned give me a good feeling and a feeling of accomplishment.

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Good one JIT........It's been so long since that has happened I forgot about that.

sam1988 said:

combining corn on a cool fall afternoon while listening to a football game.

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I am with you.  I love combining barley listening to a world series or playoff game.  Yea, we are that late cutting barley at 6500 feet.  Or popping a nice little buck from the seat of the combine.  ;D

justintime said:

Days where everything go as you planned give me a good feeling and a feeling of accomplishment.

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Those days are the best!!!  Haven't seen one in a while but I can see one coming!